Ghost Ships of the Arctic

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this episode, arctic ghost ships of the Northwest Passage are discussed, both historic and legendary. The plight of the crews, whether rescued, frozen or mysteriously disappeared is also discussed. The ships covered in this episode include the Octavius, The USS Baychimo, The HMS Investigator, The HMS Resolute, the HMS Terror and the HM Erebus.

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0:11.9	Thank you. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:30.6	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity,
0:36.6	and it has gripped hundreds of people throughout the ages.
0:40.5	I am one of those people. My name is Hallie, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
0:47.3	...and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast. The
0:57.0	The Trade is a powerful motivator.
1:21.6	Even today, many countries are willing to put their differences aside
1:26.6	to maintain trade of goods between them.
1:29.8	Around the end of the 10th century, Norwegian Vikings sailed as far north as Ellesmere Island
1:36.0	in what is now Canada, just adjacent to the most northern tip of Greenland, in order to hunt
1:41.5	and trade with the native people, now known as the Inuit.
1:45.8	By the end of the 15th century, many European colonial powers sought to discover a commercial
1:51.7	sea route to Asia, circumventing North America. Between the 15th and the early 20th century,
1:58.9	numerous expeditions went into the Arctic, seeking
2:02.3	a northwest passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
2:06.2	The Northwest Passage, as we know it today, was discovered piece by piece by many explorers.
2:12.5	The waters of the area are full of icebergs and pack ice, which is made up of pieces of ice that have frozen together
2:19.5	and float with the current. Pack ice can build up to be well over 100 feet high and able to crush
2:26.8	a ship up against the shore should the right-sized wave push it in that direction. The seabed in the area
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